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Ann Jordan is Director of the Program on
Forced Labor and Trafficking in the Center on Human Rights and
Humanitarian Law at American University’s Washington College of
Law. She is an international human rights attorney who
specializes in issues of human trafficking, forced labor and
women’s rights. She was the Director for ten years of the
Initiative against Trafficking in Persons at Global Rights and
spent eight years in Hong Kong and China teaching women’s
rights, human rights, criminal law and torts and advocating for
and writing about women’s rights in China and Hong Kong. She
actively participated with an international coalition of NGOs in
the development of the UN Trafficking Protocol and with a U.S.
NGO coalition in the development of the U.S. Victims of
Trafficking and Violence Protection Act. She was a member of the
Women’s Caucus for Gender Justice in the International Criminal
Court, which successfully advocated during the negotiation
process for the inclusion of women and women’s issues at all
levels of the Court.
She works with a broad international coalition of advocacy
and grassroots organizations on building local capacity to
develop and advocate for human rights-based programs on human
trafficking and forced labor and to carry out evidence-based
research and programming that addresses and supports the needs
and rights of the affected persons. She has worked in or on
projects in China, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Bosnia, Guatemala,
Honduras, Mexico, and Ukraine.
The Program supports the creation of networks, promotes
conceptual clarity and trains on rights-based laws and
policies. Currently, the Program focuses on transparency and
accountability in U.S. anti-trafficking policies and grant
making and on developing materials to promote a greater
understanding of the complexity of human trafficking and its
intersection with labor migration policies, sexual rights,
health rights and women’s rights. Ms. Jordan was intimately
involved in developing the Freedom Network (USA) to Empower
Trafficked and Enslaved Persons, premier U.S. NGO
anti-trafficking network of service providers and advocates. In
addition, she is on the board of advisors of the Open Society
Institute Sexual Health and Rights Program and also the central
and eastern European anti-trafficking network, La Strada. She
earned her law and undergraduate degrees at Columbia University
and serves as an advisor to several NGOs and networks. Taken
from
http://www.wcl.american.edu/humright/center/who.cfm#jordan |
